The Red Door

Chapter 17

"ARGH" yelled Hermione for the umpteenth time letting out her frustrations. 

"You need to calm down and concentrate" said Draco

"I am concentrating" snapped Hermione

Draco just raised his eye brows at her in response

"I'm sorry I'm just a little frustrated we've been doing this for 6 weeks and I'm still no closer to producing a circle" sighed Hermione it had never taken her this long to get a new piece of magic before even in their unit training

"You need to take a break relax a little" said Draco

"No I can't I want to get this" replied Hermione

"And you will... just not tonight... look why don't we call it a night and we'll take a few weeks off and then come back and try again" suggested Draco

"You want me to stop" asked Hermione irritated that he would say that

"No....I just think you need a break" said Draco forcefully

Hermione took a deep breath and sighed knowing her was right

"You're right ok let's finish for tonight and take a break...but I'm still going to read the notes in case I missed something" she conceded

"I wouldn't expect anything less" he said grabbing his coat to leave

"Draco... Thank you for helping me with this" said Hermione giving him a hug around the ribs

"You're welcome love" he said and gave her little kiss of the forehead

Over the 6 weeks of circle training together they had become close again and had even started joking about their casual sex friends. Hermione was lying of coarse she didn't want Draco to know that she had cut them all off.

A few days later Hermione was in bed reading merlins notes and came across a little side note she hadn't seem

'An honest heart makes a stronger circle'

Hermione was confused nowhere in the notes or the Grimoire had there been a mention of an honest heart or any other kind of heart and she swore this note wasn't in the book when she had read it the 20 times before. She had to tell Draco maybe he would know what it meant; this could be the key to unlocking the circle.

Hermione jumped out of bed and put her new hot pink Ugg boot slippers on and ran down the stairs with the book. She ran into the fire and used her ring to take her to the Malfoy manor. She hoped while whooshing through the floo that she would end up in the right wing, not wanting to walk into the room she was tortured. However she was not prepared for the sea of nakedness she walked into and would have gladly taken the torture room.

Lying on the floor naked was Draco and sitting on his face also naked was the blond twin looking about ready to explode her cries were certainly an indication she was enjoying herself. The brunette twin was riding Draco and touching and kissing the blond.

The blond spotted Hermione who was frozen on the spot a few steps out of the fire place.

"Argh intruder" shouter the blond

Hermione felt the punch to her gut that brought her gasping to her knees and heard the grate close behind her. Draco had used wandless magic with in a second without moving.

The blond and brunette stopped what they were doing and got off Draco before Hermione had hit the floor. He grabbed his wand and stalked over to her

Hermione was still gasping for air and clutching her stomach when Draco realised it was her.

"Shit Granger I'm sorry are you ok" asked Draco crouching down and wiping a hand down his face